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ec501234 · **on:** Jul 14, 2018

The value of total outputs of goods and services in a year in a country is its

A) level of development.
B) gross domestic product.
C) productivity.
D) value added.

Question 2

Discuss three different ways in which the elected institutions of the American federal government deviate from the principle of one person/one vote.

What will be an ideal response?

cuttiesgirl16 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 14, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the principle of one-person/one-vote in all elections. Yet the U.S. federal government itself does not achieve that ideal. Neither the House of Representatives, nor the Senate, nor the mechanism for electing the president is based strictly on a population count. The Constitution specifies that each State shall have at least one representative. Several states have so few residents that without this constitutional protection, they would have to share a representative. There are 435 seats in the House of Representatives. Therefore, assigning one representative to each state leaves 385 seats to be allocated among the states by population. Each state is also represented by two senators, no matter how few residents it has. The president, in turn, is elected indirectly in the electoral college, in which each state has as many electors as it has total seats in Congress. The candidate who wins a majority of a state's popular vote wins all of that state's electoral college votes.